Trouble hosting a LAN game
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Trouble hosting a LAN game
I'm trying to host a game on my computer and have my brother connect to my computer over the LAN but we can't seem to figure out how to get it to work. I'm not sure if we're doing somthing wrong or not. I tryed searching the forums but I couldn't find and info on doing this.
Hmmm... what address are you trying? What is his computer's IP address? You don't have to say (in a public forum). What if you type in his IP address, either local (10.0.0.1 and similar schemes) or normal internet (55.245.129.65)
Hope springs eternal.
Wesnoth acronym guide.
Wesnoth acronym guide.
Both of our computers are on the network. We're on a LAN.
My ip is 192.168.1.101
His ip is 192.168.1.100
He is actually trying to connect to my computer, I'm hosting the game. We've tryed typing in my ip address in the join game menu but that doesn't work. I'm not sure what else I can try. I'm at a but of a loss of ideas.
My ip is 192.168.1.101
His ip is 192.168.1.100
He is actually trying to connect to my computer, I'm hosting the game. We've tryed typing in my ip address in the join game menu but that doesn't work. I'm not sure what else I can try. I'm at a but of a loss of ideas.
Two possibilities. First, one player can select "Host a game without server" and create a game; then the other players select "Join a server or hosted game" and type the IP address of the host (so 192.168.1.101 in your case).orvalax wrote:What does eveyone else type in to join a game on a home network?
Second, a server (wesnothd) can be launched on a computer, and then all the players will "Join a server or hosted game" with the IP address of this computer.
Both solutions are supposed to work. Be sure not to use the same login in the multiplayer boxes. And to use the same version of the game.
I assume other things work on this network and it's just Wesnoth that doesn't?orvalax wrote:I don't have any sort of firewall. I forgot to mention that I'm runnig Linux so a few things are a bit different. And we want to use the network so we can be in different rooms. We need to find out why its not working on the network.
Linux has firewall capability built in. To find out what it's doing, login as root and type:
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iptables -L
This will print out the firewall rules. Hopefully that'll tell you if it's a firewall problem or not.
Playing Wesnoth over the network is the only thing I've tryed to use the network for. And its not working sa you can see. with the iptables -L command it doesn't really display anything. Here is what it gives me:
I'm guessing from the accept messages that it's not blocking anything. Are there any really stupid mistakes I could be over looking?
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Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
That's right, so the firewall isn't the problem.
Can you ping the other computer?
Can you ping the other computer?
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ping <ip address>